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Privacy has become a key factor in international business transactions. The digital economy needs a solid basis for data processing and data transfers. This need poses new challenges for privacy issues in both businesses and society. The Privacy Conference brings together privacy experts from various backgrounds to identify a common understanding on privacy.
This year’s conference will focus on the EU General Data Protection Regulation and the transatlantic Privacy Shield. Speakers will point out the key features of the reform and showcase their solutions for the implementation. How to be compliant with the GDPR? What is to be expected from the various opening clauses? Which technical Solutions to Privacy, Security, and Confidentiality allow both use and protection? And what must companies do the get behind the Privacy Shield?
These and many more questions will be addressed by data protection authorities, business representatives and academia to find a common ground on privacy.
Thursday, Sept. 22
5:00 PM Reception
6:00 PM Keynote Q&A
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM Dinner
Friday, Sept. 23rd
8:00 AM Breakfast and Introductory Remarks
9:00 AM Morning Panel Q&A
The Future of EU Privacy and Its Implications
The GDPR, the Privacy Shield, and regulators’ global application of the Right to be Forgotten on American companies point to a fundamental policy shift: Washington has taken a backseat to Brussels on privacy regulation. How will US-based multinationals operate in this new environment with more prescriptive rules, more detailed accounting requirements, and growing fines?
10:00 AM Break
10:30 AM Breakout Discussion Session #1
The Future of EU Privacy and Its Implications
A discussion to follow from the preceding panel.
(breakout rooms assigned on the reverse side of name badges)
12:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM Breakout Discussion Session #2
The Expanding Regulation of Privacy and Security
The FTC, HHS, FCC, State AGs, EU, SEC . . . the list of regulators and laws addressing privacy are expanding. What is most notable about this evolving landscape? What are the latest strategies for staying ahead of these developments? With the growing recognition of the interconnectedness between privacy and security, what is being done internally within organizations to integrate these functions? Is the place and role of the privacy professional changing?
2:30 PM Break
3:00 PM Breakout Discussion Session #3
Hot Topics
We will program this last session on emerging topics in the weeks before the Roundtable.
4:00 PM Closing Reception
5:00 PM End of Roundtable
The Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) is now center stage with responsibility for driving an important strategic agenda within the enterprise. Recent IAPP research claimed there would need to be 28,000 more Data Protection Officers in Europe to meet the new GDPR requirements.
Register now for this webinar to hear insight into the changing role of the CPO as we examine questions questions such as:
- What will this new role look like?
- How will these new requirements impact the qualities, experience and responsibilities of the CPO within the enterprise?
- What do you need to do to make sure you’re ready to be a CPO in the new privacy landscape?
Join this webinar to hear from current CPOs on how their roles have changed and what they see as they future need as well as industry experts who will talk about the tools, training and experience essential for success.
*Can’t make the webinar? Register anyway! We’ll send you a followup email with the slides and recording after the webinar!*
Smart Cities Week is a highly interactive conference and expo that showcases cutting-edge technologies, real-world solutions and proven strategies government leaders need to build more livable, workable, sustainable cities. City leaders will have an opportunity to see, hear and experience the next wave of innovative, integrated technologies that are already helping cities around the world become more compassionate, connected and sustainable.
The Smart Cities Week program will show you how to better engage your city’s citizens and improve transportation to increase equity and access to opportunity. You’ll learn how smart water systems can reduce costs and improve efficiency, and what to do with all the data your city collects. See below for just some of the topics currently in development and be sure to check back in for updates on sessions in development on Smart Buildings, Street Lighting, Microgrids and Distributed Energy, Public Safety, Waste Management, Telecommunication, and more.
BUILT ENVIRONMENT
TRANSPORTATION
DATA MANAGEMENT
SMART WATER
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT
SMART CITY LEADERSHIP
This workshop is designed to help health care entrepreneurs and applications developers determine the necessary and appropriate privacy and security safeguards for managing consumer data. Session participants will learn about their responsibilities under the Privacy and Security Rules of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and other federal and California privacy and security laws, and consider strategies for their effective navigation.
Presented by AcademyHealth, with support from the California Health Care Foundation
As the nation faces a political transition, the time is ripe to highlight and examine the underlying economics of policies that will ensure America’s leadership in the deployment and adoption of cutting-edge digital infrastructure. This Economic Summit will assemble leading economists from across the country to: (1) consider the principal economic policy challenges influencing the ongoing deployment of broadband technologies; (2) discuss current economic policy developments that impact investment in and deployment of digital infrastructures; and (3) offer recommendations for next-administration economic policies.
Technology disrupts all aspects of our lives – in good ways and bad. Meanwhile, basic rights such as privacy, freedom of expression and non-discrimination are under unprecedented strain. Big Data and the Internet of Things bring policy, regulatory and enforcement challenges that require a holistic approach to ensure that the rights and interests of individuals are safeguarded in the coming decades.
The EDPS, in collaboration with European consumer organisation BEUC, is hosting a joint conference on Big Data: individual rights and smart enforcement in Brussels on Thursday 29 September 2016. The conference will include panels on online platforms, smart technologies and the Digital Single Market. Speakers include EU Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager, Federal Trade Commissoner Terrell McSweeny, BEUC Director General Monique Goyens and European Data Protection Supervisor, Giovanni Buttarelli.
This high level conference will bring together leading regulators and experts in the competition, data protection and consumer protection spheres to discuss key areas of economic and societal change, to promote closer dialogue and cooperation among regulatory and enforcement bodies and explore how to better respond to the challenges our society is facing.
The registration was closed on Monday 12 September, but the event will be webstreamed live.
When it comes to developing sustainable computing systems, private, secure, open and ethical IT is the way of the future. The General Data Protection Legislation passed in January 2016 has been a landmark in this endeavor, however beyond legislation the time is ripe for societal and technological changes.
On the occasion of the inaugural event of the WU’s Privacy & Sustainable Computing Lab, we analyse where we stand in terms of privacy for sustainable computing. This event brings together current perspectives from NGO’s, standardisation bodies, researchers, engineers, business and legal representatives.
In 2009, Congress passed the HITECH Act to promote the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology (IT). In particular, Congress intended for this legislation to create the conditions so that every American would soon have access to a private, secure, and portable electronic health record. While the United States has made substantial progress in meaningful use of health IT, most patients are still unable to easily transfer their complete medical record to a new provider, share their records securely with other family members or care givers, or donate their medical data for research. These problems lower the quality of care patients receive, reduce competition among providers, raise costs for health care payers, and stand in the way of advancements in data-driven medicine.
As part of National Health IT Week, please join ITIF and a panel of experts for a discussion about the future of medical data sharing and the steps Congress and the next administration can take to reduce health information blocking, give consumers access to their medical data, and fully realize the benefits of the health information revolution.
Additonal panelists to be announced.
Abuse exists in many forms on the Internet. While many malicious online activities are considered crimes, the distribution of sexually explicit images without the subjects’ consent—commonly referred to as “revenge porn”—continues to exist in a legal gray area throughout much of the United States. Revenge porn can have dramatic consequences for victims, damaging their reputations and job prospects, subjecting them to threats, and intimidating them into silence. Because there is no universal legal recourse, victims are often unable to stop the spread of images or take action against the perpetrator.
Join ITIF and an expert panel for a discussion about how policymakers can criminalize revenge porn, while protecting important speech on the Internet. Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA), who introduced the Intimate Privacy Protection Act, will deliver opening remarks.
The event is free and open to the public. The event will be live-streamed and a recording will be available following the event. Follow @ITIFdcduring the event, and join the conversation using #ITIFprivacy.